Word: georgy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...building, they knew what they were there to do. They would ratify the choice already made by the Politburo, that of Yuri Andropov, 68, to be Brezhnev's successor as party chief. The post has been held by only five men since the Bolshevik Revolution: Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Georgi Malenkov, Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev. Shortly after noon Friday, Andropov, the son of a railroad worker from the northern Caucasus, became the sixth...
...West, Andropov's personality and private life are even more shadowy than those of other Politburo members. Soviet Historian Roy Medvedev says Andropov has only one hobby?politics. "He's a politician who loves politics." A widower, Andropov has a son, Igor, 37, who has worked under Soviet Americanologist Georgi Arbatov at Moscow's Institute of U.S.A. and Canada Studies. According to Hough, Arbatov has had a long personal and professional relationship with Andropov and may now become the equivalent of national security adviser to the new General Secretary...
...superpowers took place ten years ago this week: Richard Nixon's visit to the Soviet Union to sign the first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty. Reducing strategic weapons promises to be more of a challenge than limiting them. "We want to talk, but the basis must be acceptable," warns Georgi Arbatov, a member of the Central Committee who is the top authority on American affairs. The Administration's arms-control planners feel much the same. Yet the very fact that the powerful antagonists of East and West are edging uncertainly to ward the conference table may do much...
...little more than two years ago, Galina Orionova said good-bye to the Soviet Union and her position as a researcher at the Institute on the USA and Canada, Moscow's prestigious "think-tank" on American affairs run by chief specialist Georgi Arbatov...
...perception of the Minuteman debate, at least as expressed by official spokesmen in a series of interviews in Moscow, is a mixture of righteous indignation, countercharges and carefully reasoned assurances. "These wild scenarios by American armchair strategists breed suspicion and paranoia and serve to justify the arms race," says Georgi Arbatov, the director of the Institute for the Study of the U.S.A. and Canada and a member of the Communist Party Central Committee...